Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the...

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of...

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...